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The flexibility of the curriculum design makes Career Choices suitable for...
Mainstream 8th, 9th or 10th grade language arts and/or math classes
Combining the Career Choices text and its theme of personal success with the supplements Lifestyle Math and/or Possibilities, the language arts anthology, allows ample opportunity for reading, writing, and computation assignments that students will complete with enthusiasm because of the subject's relevance to their own lives. Class discussions, too, will take on new energy and meaning as students address such topics as character, motivation, commitment, and compromise.
Launching Students into Tech Prep or School-to-Work Programs
As we ask adolescents to make sophisticated career and life decisions, it is essential to provide them with a comprehensive guidance experience if we want them to choose wisely. Career Choices integrates academics and guidance themes in a way that not only gives them greater understanding of themselves, but demonstrates the inextricable connection between success at school, success at work, and satisfaction in life.
Gifted Student Programs
Gifted student programs most often emphasize intellectual achievement at the expense of the practical and emotional needs of individual class members. Career Choices can be used alone or in a language arts or math program to help focus, challenge, and motivate gifted students as they develop the support systems they need.
Employment Seminars
Career Choices is a motivational tool, emphasizing identity search as an important supplement to basic career research and building skills. It is also very effective in demonstrating how academic classes are relevant to future employment and in instilling an attitude toward work that employers applaud.
A Guidance Curriculum and Counseling Program
As new state and federal regulations mandate more personal and career guidance for all students, Career Choices allows already overworked counselors to provide the kind of high quality information and advice that's needed for every individual in their school. The curriculum meets all mandated requirements and can be used effectively in individual and group counseling programs, as well as in the classroom. (When counselors do use Career Choices in the classroom, they become an important part of the teaching team.)
Equity Programs
Career Choices not only illustrates the need for all students to take responsibility for planning for their own future, but it also demonstrates how young women, in particular, can enhance their potential to be good parents and partners by seriously preparing for paid employment outside the home.
Family Life Courses
With components on problem solving, decision making, balancing lifestyles, budgeting, and planning for the future, this is an ideal Family Life course textbook.
At-risk Students
The text effectively demonstrates future benefits of completing high school and possibly post-secondary education. Career Choices also helps at-risk students understand that, in spite of individual challenges, they have the ability, resources, and responsibility to determine their own life patterns.
WIA Youth Employment and Training Programs
Career Choices encourages young people who may already be disengaged from their lives as students to stay in school by demonstrating the relevance of education to future success. It clearly meets the federal requirements for "Academic Enrichment" and "Workplace Readiness."
Teen Parenting Programs
Students overwhelmed by the chores and responsibilities of parenthood are less likely to drop out of school when they receive the kind of support and encouragement that is infused throughout the Career Choices text.
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Where to Use the Career Choices Curriculum---Overview of Options